upcoming time travel opportunities - NYC

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New York City and my myriad fiaxtions are all syncing up with an absurd neatness these days. While I think part of it is just suddenly being hooked in to know about these sorts of things, I think a lot of it is the moment we find ourselves in culturally. The millenium changed and the world didn't - at least we could be a bit more refined.

Here is at least some of the upcoming stuff you can find me and mine at, and that I encourage the other locals to attend.

The Salon
June 27th at the Players Club
(Torchwood peeps, we're going, right? RIGHT?)

Vintage Regency Assembly brought to you by Susan de Guardiola and the Elegant Arts Society.
June 28th at the 92nd Street Y
No costume or experience required.
$20 (and I have an extra ticke if anyone is interested).
I've been involved with EAS for years. We have regular classes in the city and while this is not strictly-speaking an EAS event, this is the first ball in NYC we've been affiliated with. Most of the group will talk to you about the world of Jane Austen. But I'm in it because of Horatio Hornblower.

Regency and Ragtime dance classes
June 29th from the Elegant Arts Society.

(Yes the three things above are also during Pride Weekend. You can actually fit most of them and most of Pride in, if you're batshit crazy. I am!)

Dances of Vice
July 5
The Montauk Club (that's in Brooklyn, not Long Island, folks)
1920s/1930s Shanghai Vice theme

Dances of Vice
August 22 - 24
various venues
3 day festival with a Baroque emphasis but one night is literally called "The Time Traveller's Ball"


Also, not having anything to wear is never an excuse. New York is the greatest city to kuldge together random quasi-historical stuff in. Often for very little $.

Comments

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I really want to swing the Regency Ball. I didn't know you liked HH. I love JA and HH, although the latter is technically only Georgian. I wish Saffy wasn't in the newer HH films, though.

What about Sharpe? Are you into that also? It's my favourite. I feel like you would love the 95th uniforms.

We are headed to PA for a Waterloo reenactment in July, but maybe we could do both. SO wants to create a 95th officer's impression, but it literally costs a fortune,

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I've still not had time to get into Sharpe, but yes, best uniforms ever!

The HH books actually start in the Georgian period, go into Regency-era and come right out the other side. The movies haven't done even half of what it's in there.

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I didn't know they considered HH Regency since that period is sort of inside the Georgian period. Interesting. I've only listened to some of the books, but I know they are super different from the movies. It's weird how they gave Kennedy some of Bush's experiences in the most recent movies. I've not seen any of the TV series or other movies. Gregory Peck as HH is interesting, because I guess HH was morally similar to Atticus Finch, but I don't know about that casting.

You totally need a 95th officers jacket. It would be awesome on you.